Olamide picks AFRIMA Best Album West Africa 2014 award


Olamide
(Olamide receives AFRIMA Best Album West Africa 2014 award for BGEL. Photo: Olamide/Instagram)
Nigerian rapper, Olamide was presented with AFRIMA Best Album West Africa 2014 award in Ethiopia today, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, for his third album, Baddes Guy Ever Liveth which was released in October 2013.
The YBNL boss took to Instagram to share a photo from the conference today and captioned it: ‘Thanks to #Afrima, my fam (fans), my Team, and the Media for all the support …. better late than never .. Best album west Africa 2014 … #BGEL’
Olamide is right now in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in company of two of Nigeria’s media gurus, Olisa Adibua of Beat FM and Biodun Kupoluyi, publisher of E-247 Magazine, to represent West Africa at the joint conference of the African Union and All Africa Music Award holding today, at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa.

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